WASHINGTON -- The popular anti-wrinkle drug Botox and a competitor have been linked to dangerous botulism symptoms in some users, cases so bad that a few children given the drugs for muscle spasms have died, the government warned Friday.
Friday's warning came two weeks after the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen petitioned the FDA to strengthen warnings to users of Botox and Myobloc - citing 180 reports of U.S. patients suffering fluid in the lungs, difficulty swallowing or pneumonia, including 16 deaths.
Nor is it the first warning. The drugs' labels do warn about the potential for botulinum toxin to spread beyond the injection site and occasionally kill, but the warnings link that side effect to patients with certain neuromuscular diseases, such as myasthenia gravis. More here.
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The Humantics Foundation has kept the message of the dangers of breast implants before the public for 16 years now ... providing free information & support on this highly charged, controversial topic. We have maintained a network of support for women harmed by breast implants via email lists and groups and continue to provide telephone and email support on a daily basis.
We speak out too, on vaccination danger awareness, and the cover-up of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, from which many, many in our support groups suffer.
By doing so, the entire time, we have been the target of industry backed legal and smear campaigns attempting to silence our voice and bankrupt us. It's been very challenging, to put it gently, and we're still here, thanks to God's grace and the generosity of friends and supporters.
Today more than ever ... the breast implant industry and their very connected public relations teams have a lot of power to keep their corporate backed message before the public.
If you wish to contribute to help us, please click paypal below ... credit cards are now accepted or write us here.
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- Some of you may have heard of Barrett Vs Rosenthal. I'm Rosenthal. After 7 long, expensive years of litigation, I recently prevailed in a California Supreme Court Decision which protects web posters from being sued for reposting the words of another. I quote from The Matrix: "Fate, it seems, is not without a touch of Irony." While suing me for libel (& losing) ... the plaintiffs and their public relations connections have waged massive smear campaigns of monumental proportions against me and the other defendants.
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It would be a full time job monitoring all of the professional public relations teams that have followed me throughout the internet and filled this blog with their rants.
Their attempts to silence me and overwhelm me with dissension, led to my ultimate victory in Barrett Vs Rosenthal in the Supreme Court of California in November, 2006.
They have attempted to overwhelm my blogs too ... also unsuccessfully.
So please feel welcome to email me with your specific comments.